5 Things to Know... will run every Friday and will feature insider secrets from professionals in and around Fort Thomas. I’ll do my best to make sure I can personally and professionally vouch for every professional we feature, so if you are in search of any of these services and want to contact these professionals further, I’ll provide contact information for your benefit.

We’ll try to keep the topics pertinent to the issues that you may be facing, but if you have a suggestion for me, shoot me an email and I’ll see if we can get it covered for you.

I've been reading your blog for about 6 months or so. I love keeping up with the issues that affect us here in Ft. Thomas and in our surrounding communities.

I just wanted to throw in my suggestion for a professional to feature on your new featured articles "5 things to know." My husband and I are meeting with Ashli Slawter next week regarding a home addition that we would like to do. She's an architect and seems to have loads of good information regarding energy efficiency.

I have not spoken with her yet but my husband has and he was impressed with her so far. I've looked at her website and her bio is certainly impressive. It seems as if she has done some other articles for other local papers and her tidbits of information seem really helpful.